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July 2025

July 02, 2025
This spring, I finally picked up The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. The book...

June 2025

June 26, 2025
As you well know by now, I've been working through a bunch of books on...
June 10, 2025
I finally picked up a book that's been sitting on my shelf for awhile: Years...

May 2025

May 27, 2025
I recently picked up the following book in a neighborhood Free Little Library. Jonathan Safran...
May 15, 2025
Well, it's been a hot minute, but I have a rather good excuse: my second...

April 2025

April 18, 2025
I have not known true thirst – not to the point of death or to...

March 2025

March 05, 2025
The following book recently arrived in the mail: Author Liz Cooledge Jenkins is a writer,...

February 2025

February 27, 2025
It's story time, kids! Several years ago, my brother spit into a bottle and sent...
February 24, 2025
There’s a tradition, or I suppose I should call it a rule in my family:...
February 13, 2025
I recently won the following book from Englewood Review of Books: Englewood, if you don't...
February 04, 2025
I found the following book in my neighborhood's free little library a couple of months...

January 2025

January 27, 2025
On Tuesday night, I took up one end of the couch, while my younger son...
January 16, 2025
I finally read a book that had been sitting on my shelf for a while:...
January 10, 2025
A friend recently passed along the following book: I think you'll like it, she said, and...

December 2024

December 17, 2024
Christmas is going to be here before we know it. If you're anything like me,...
December 06, 2024
Week before last, my boys and I stopped by the hardware store afterschool for a...

November 2024

November 29, 2024
On Friday night, my boys and I gathered around the scratched and worn dining room...
November 22, 2024
A couple of days ago, I left the house to take the dog for a...
November 15, 2024
Sometimes, our invitation is simply to notice. When I walk through the backyard garden, I...
November 08, 2024
Less than forty-eight hours ago, I walked and stood and wound my way through a...
November 01, 2024
Sometimes we just want to see. Earlier this week, I woke up, same as always:...

October 2024

October 25, 2024
A singular image of anger often lives in my head. It’s an image that comes...
October 08, 2024
What are we to do with the natural shoulds that often accompany life? You should...
October 03, 2024
As I was reading a parenting book this last week, a statement about a particular...
October 01, 2024
We all crave wholeness. We all crave truth. Yesterday, my family hit up the localist...

September 2024

September 24, 2024
I am reminded of a scene from 15, 20 years ago, about a singular story...
September 17, 2024
In our house, there is typically one rule I try and employ to my nine...
September 10, 2024
Perhaps like some of you, in the fall, my weekends are filled with soccer. I’m...
September 03, 2024
It’s fine to say you love your neighbor as yourself, but what does that actually...

August 2024

August 20, 2024
Have you ever felt desperate for thirst? So hungry for food that you would have...
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